“AKTIVNO STARENJE“: NORMATIVNA VRIJEDNOST KONCEPTA I IZAZOVI U SFERI SOCIJALNE POLITIKE
“ACTIVE AGING” – THE CONCEPT’S NORMATIVE VALUE AND CHALLENGES IN THE SOCIAL POLITICS AREA

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to examine the intersection of the active ageing paradigm with potetials for its pragmatical implementation in Bosnian society. Therefore, in the first section, the authors give a a brief review of different theoretical underpanning of “active ageing“construct as well as practical approaches to its implementation. In order to elaborate potential challenges in the implementation of the concept in Bosnian socio-economic context, the article contains necessary statistical data on demographic changes and negative tendencies present in Bosnian society: decline in total population, negative population growth and continued ageing. Given that the concept of active aging is multidimensional, encompassing not only health opportunities and participation, but also safety related to protection, dignity and care for elderly, in following section, several critical cross-cutting issues in the areas of intergenerational and inter-family solidarity are being discussed. Within given context, along with an analysis of the weaknesses of pension system in BiH, different trends of the current reform of the pension system in the EU are discussed. Additionally, within the section on interfamily integration and solidarity in the context of care for elderly the authors tackle problematic division between public and private care responsibilities and efficiency of the public care.

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